On 2013-01-08 01:47, Ian Hickson wrote:
The next best choice would be to have datetime-with-timezone but
unfortunately
(1) Official database for all timezones does not exist
(2) Official timezone names (or labels) do not exist
(3) Timezones are subject to future political decisions
The problems (1) and (2) make transferring the timezone information from
the end user to the server very problematic and the problem (3) makes
any work to fix (1) and (2) a bit pointless. This is because even if UA
could successfully inform the server about the correct timezone, the
server could be using a week old timezone data that is not up to the
latest political events. Or the server might be using latest timezone
data but the UA could be using three year old data. In either case, the
absolute time in UTC could be different for the server and UA.
Indeed.
Sorry?
<http://www.iana.org/time-zones> addresses (1) and possibly (2), no?
Best regards, Julian
